Black and Blue
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Connecting color to our thoughts can bring a memory, an emotion or imagery to life. This poem is written from the power of color and how we might imagine where our loved ones go when they’ve left us here.
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Breakup with Resistance
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Resistance to the experiences life has thrown at me, the bricks of change I refused to accept are becoming the foundation of a way forward.
Read MoreAngels, Dragonflies, and Fried Egg Sandwiches
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Quite the diversity of form these angels, dragonflies, and fried egg sandwiches; each is not like the other yet all are welcome to a seat at my comfort table. The metaphysical aspects of life are unknown, unscientific, and unproven. Yet there it is, tickling us with its possibilities of seeing, knowing, feeling the great mystery of the other side.
Read MoreMy Girl Transformed
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Weird and wonderful dreams and their mixed messages can be comforting or bittersweet, frustrating or full of connection and meaning.
Read MoreDream of Oak
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Just when I feel a lack of imagination, comes a dream. An unbidden act of vivid imagination pushing its message, its beauty, the unknown into the prefrontal cortex of a prosaic mind.
Read MoreDeath is in My House
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My daughter, Lena, experienced a near fatal health crisis about six months before she walked on. Contrasting her thoughts before and after that hospitalization, her words bring clarity to the thin veil between life and death.
Let it burn
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Let It Burn is an imaginary view from my daughter’s perspective moments after her passing. Louise Gluck’s poem "The Wild Iris" prompted this imaginative piece.
Read MorePermission to let go
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This piece is a reaction to my struggle to understand medical decisions, protocols and permissions or lack thereof. It is written from my daughter's viewpoint as she lay dying.
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